After the "success" of my last Gravel trip on the Wicklow Way I'm announcing my 2nd Irish Epic
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After the "success" of my last Gravel trip on the Wicklow Way I'm announcing my 2nd Irish Epic
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“The guy at hike in time on this is 5 days. So I'm thinking we can get through this, I'm hoping comfortably in 2 days when the last one was a 130k, that was a stretch over 2 days.”
“We were drinking out of streams and we were basically foraging for water. And it's not a good place to be because when you need to drink water, you need to drink and you often can't wait two, three hours to get water into you.”
“your own is hands down the best place you can ride a bike. And you can take that from someone who's ridden their bike all over the world, from North America to Europe, to even China, to boy, Qatar, at least everywhere.”
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